Installing a New Hard Drive

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Gene Goldenfeld

First of all, help here (from David Candy) allowed me to solve a problem
with right-clicking on folders, PGP Shell Extension being the culprit
("Windows Explorer opens to command prompt," 2/2). Now I'm ready to
install a 160GB hard drive and turn my 40GB into storage. I plan to use
the Western Digital setup software to copy drive to drive (XP/SP2 +
updates), and have a few questions:

-- After copying from old to new, I assume XP should be taken off the
old drive so that the system is only on one drive. How is this done?

-- I read that to use the "full" capacity of the drive SP2 has to be
installed. Will the cloning take care of that automatically?

-- I'd like to partition the new drive in chunks smaller than the 37GB
currently on the old drive (less XP). Where in the process should I do
this?

Thanks,

Gene
 
First of all, help here (from David Candy) allowed me to solve a problem
with right-clicking on folders, PGP Shell Extension being the culprit
("Windows Explorer opens to command prompt," 2/2). Now I'm ready to
install a 160GB hard drive and turn my 40GB into storage. I plan to use
the Western Digital setup software to copy drive to drive (XP/SP2 +
updates), and have a few questions:

-- After copying from old to new, I assume XP should be taken off the
old drive so that the system is only on one drive. How is this done?
Click to expand...

Connect the old drive to the computer and format it.
-- I read that to use the "full" capacity of the drive SP2 has to be
installed. Will the cloning take care of that automatically?
Yes


-- I'd like to partition the new drive in chunks smaller than the 37GB
currently on the old drive (less XP). Where in the process should I do
this?
Click to expand...

Run XP's Disk Management and create an extended partition. Then create
logical drives within the extended partition.
 
Gene, the first task is very simple. Once you have setup the new drive
you can format the old drive by just rt clicking on
the drive icon in MyComputer and select Format. Move any important
data first to the new drive before formatting.
If you are imaging XP + SP2 don't worry about full capacity.
I am not familiar with the Software you are using but I pretty sure
that you can use Disk Management to partition the
remaining unallocated hard drive space.
Rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. It's done from
there.
 
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Gene Goldenfeld said:
First of all, help here (from David Candy) allowed me to solve a
problem with right-clicking on folders, PGP Shell Extension being the
culprit ("Windows Explorer opens to command prompt," 2/2). Now I'm
ready to install a 160GB hard drive and turn my 40GB into storage. I
plan to use the Western Digital setup software to copy drive to drive
(XP/SP2 + updates), and have a few questions:

-- After copying from old to new, I assume XP should be taken off the
old drive so that the system is only on one drive. How is this done?

-- I read that to use the "full" capacity of the drive SP2 has to be
installed. Will the cloning take care of that automatically?

-- I'd like to partition the new drive in chunks smaller than the 37GB
currently on the old drive (less XP). Where in the process should I
do this?

Thanks,

Gene
Click to expand...

See my Clean Install web page for detailed step by step. You determine the
size and create the initial partition where XP is installed during install.
You then use Disk Management after Windows is setup to create additional
partitions from the unallocated space. If you currently have multiple
partitions, they will need to be deleted during setup. Make sure any
important data is backed up before running setup.

How to clean install XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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Gene Goldenfeld said:
First of all, help here (from David Candy) allowed me to solve a problem
with right-clicking on folders, PGP Shell Extension being the culprit
("Windows Explorer opens to command prompt," 2/2). Now I'm ready to
install a 160GB hard drive and turn my 40GB into storage. I plan to use
the Western Digital setup software to copy drive to drive (XP/SP2 +
updates), and have a few questions:

-- After copying from old to new, I assume XP should be taken off the
old drive so that the system is only on one drive. How is this done?
Click to expand...

After doing the cloning, correctly jumper the drives (new as master, old as
slave), but leave the old drive un-attached for the first couple of boots to
ensure that the new drive is working correctly. You can attach it later, and
in DiskManagement re-partition and format it...(Start->Run diskmgmt.msc)
-- I read that to use the "full" capacity of the drive SP2 has to be
installed. Will the cloning take care of that automatically?
Yes.


-- I'd like to partition the new drive in chunks smaller than the 37GB
currently on the old drive (less XP). Where in the process should I do
this?
Click to expand...

I haven't used the WD cloning program (just got my 1st WD drive), but I
suspect there's an option to specify to what size partition on the new drive
you want to do it, ie. new drive as 1 big partition (dynamically resizing
partitions) or a 37GiB partition (C:) and the rest unpartitioned, which can
be partitioned with DiskManager
The latter one is the one you want.....
 
Thomas said:
After doing the cloning, correctly jumper the drives (new as master, old as
slave), but leave the old drive un-attached for the first couple of boots to
ensure that the new drive is working correctly. You can attach it later, and
in DiskManagement re-partition and format it...(Start->Run diskmgmt.msc)


I haven't used the WD cloning program (just got my 1st WD drive), but I
suspect there's an option to specify to what size partition on the new drive
you want to do it, ie. new drive as 1 big partition (dynamically resizing
partitions) or a 37GiB partition (C:) and the rest unpartitioned, which can
be partitioned with DiskManager
The latter one is the one you want.....
Click to expand...

Thanks to all! I'm not planning to do a clean install, since it doesn't
seem necessary this time. At the beginning of the year, when MS was
(not correctly) helping me try to solve the right-click folder hangup,
we did a couple of repair installs and I used the occasion to do a lot
of HD cleaning. The old drive is single partition (~37gb), while I'd
like to make the new drive 'start' with a small partition, about 10GB at
most, to put the system and most important user files, and then put
everything else on subsequent partitions. Perhaps it will all become
clear while doing it, but where I'm going blind right now is how to do
the cloning process so that this split, or at least the main one
(system, etc.) puts things where I want them. Thanks.

Gene
 
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